Princess Margaret Bully Free?

"Princess Margaret Secondary School of roughly 750 students is considered bully free," expresses Darren Hogg of grade 12. Princess Margaret Secondary school is well known for being called Maggie for short and is located in the center of the beautiful Okanogan. Gage Buchanan says, "The location of our school plays a big part in keeping our precious school bully free and a great environment." "Maggie is a very high pride school and we fully support all of out sports teams and local fundraising events." "The Okanogan is so nice and an awesome place to live and it seems that everyone is always so happy and caring for others so there is no need for bullying." Although what Gage has commented for us is true, it is a new world and bullying has evolved into different types. Bullying has always been around and it will never go away.
The way technology has grown, it has changed the ways of bullying. There is still bullying but it has been going on for so long and has been such a problem that it has become more socially acceptable such as teasing. Also students are getting smarter and the internet is more widely used now then ever before. Now with social networks and chat sites such as face book and MSN, the biggest bullying problem now is cyber bullying. A tremendous contributor is cell phones. Every student now starting in grade 9-12 has their very own cell phone and with face book and updated technology makes it is so easy to get a hold of someone’s cell phone number. Bullying is now harder to recognize because it isn’t physically happening in front of us anymore and the only people that may know about the bullying problem is the bully, the victim and if the victim is brave, smart enough he will have let either his parents or a counselor or both know what’s going on.
"Maggie is such a great school, I love it here. The student body has a great mixture of people and I know from self enrollment that my grad class is very close and if there is any bullying going on in any of the grades, the grade 12's will have something to say and do about it. You just don’t see it happening anymore." says Greg Stephens, "Now we just hear about it and it’s hard to stop it." "Telling the teachers has never worked for any of my victims. They just tell the little sucker to stand up to me, but look at me, I mean I’m jacked why do you think I abuse all my power? It’s because I can. I only bully the kids that I see bullying other kids. I teach them a lesson that’s why there is no such visible bullying issue in our school."

I never had guardians. I never had navigation. I never had domestication. My parents left me when I left my mom. Within days of being born I was on my feet

Grade 12: Jungle Gym

High school is like getting lost in a jungle, you enter scared for your life and you leave with accomplishment. Grade nine is the initial part of feeling lost, scared for your life and intimidated. Grade twelve's being at the top of the food chain, look like angry gorillas and tigers to you. You just stay away from them at all times. Moving up the food chain you gain confidence and the grade twelve's become less as intimidating, you start to feel like there is a slim chance of making it out of this crazy place alive. You are always surrounded and tempted into making bad decisions and you have to avoid and you have to avoid the temptation of the delicious looking mushrooms growing all around you. After three years of ups and downs, you hit the final stretch. Grade twelve is such an awesome feeling. You feel like you're going to make it out alive, the end is near. There are very few decisions and paths left for you to make, but these decisions are the biggest decisions that you have faced. Some which decide life or death and others can ruin your life. Graduating from high school is like conquering the jungle. You survived the bottom of the food chain and earned your rankings moving to the top. Graduating may feel like the end but it is only the beginning.